Tips for Webmasters and Web Designers

Getting a Google search for software consultant to list my resume on its
first page of search results didn't require me to pay a lot of money to a
search engine placement service. I didn't have to do anything dishonest, like
build a link farm. It didn't cost a cent. It did take time and a lot of hard
work, but my method is so simple that anyone could do it - and if you did,
the Web would be a better place.

Ready-to-click links to the site submission pages of the top search
engines. Manual submission of your site through this page is
a lot quicker and easier than using site submission software, it's
totally free and won't spam you with annoying ads for paid submission
packages. You also won't encounter the barriers the search engines use to
defend themselves from spamming by the placement robots.

Ensure that your web pages will render correctly in any browser
as well as being accessible to the blind by using valid HTML. Also
test your server application's ability to withstand a heavy user load by
testing with a load generator during development.

I explain how I'm able to earn a living for myself by running a
well-designed, legitimate, spam and popup-free website. I wrote this essay
because I saw that many of the pages that offer advice on how to earn money
from Google AdSense are really scams aimed to get money from clueless and
desperate webmasters by offerring to sell them advice that really ought to be
as free as the air. In many cases, "AdSense Secrets" pages exist only to
attract clicks to the AdSense advertisements placed on them. For that reason,
I am committed never to place advertising on this article.
I want there to be a safe place for webmasters to turn to without finding hands
in their pockets.

It's very common for website operators to make money - or try to anyway -
through underhanded means, for example by gaming the search engines with such
"search engine optimization" schemes as link farms, or by emailing mass
quantities of spam. Is all that really necessary?